AUGUST 2025 | 91 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL HOW TO PLACE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Oklahoma Bar Journal welcomes short articles or news items about OBA members and upcoming meetings. If you are an OBA member and you’ve moved, become a partner, hired an associate, taken on a partner, received a promotion or an award or given a talk or speech with statewide or national stature, we’d like to hear from you. Sections, committees and county bar associations are encouraged to submit short stories about upcoming or recent activities. Honors bestowed by other publications (e.g., Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, etc.) will not be accepted as announcements. (Oklahoma-based publications are the exception.) Information selected for publication is printed at no cost, subject to editing and printed as space permits. Submit news items to: Hailey Boyd Communications Dept. Oklahoma Bar Association 405-416-7033 barbriefs@okbar.org Articles for the October issue must be received by Sept. 1. TU College of Law in 2023. While in law school, he served as articles selection editor for the Tulsa Law Review and received CALI awards in Legal Writing, Law & Literature, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice & Public Policy. He practices civil litigation with an emphasis on research and writing. Mr. Orcutt received his J.D. with highest honors from the TU College of Law in 2024. While in law school, he received CALI awards in Basic Oil & Gas Law and Piracy, Copiers & Copyright in Law & Culture. He practices civil litigation with an emphasis on research and writing. Matthew K. Felty and Heath W. Garwood have joined the Oklahoma City law firm of Ryan Whaley. Mr. Felty is a director at the firm. He has complex litigation experience, representing both companies and individuals across a variety of practice areas, including oil and gas, manufacturers’ products liability, insurance coverage, catastrophic personal injury, complex commercial disputes, aviation disputes and engineering and construction litigation. Mr. Felty received his J.D. from the OU College of Law in 2012. Mr. Garwood is a trial lawyer with a practice primarily focused on complex civil litigation. His litigation experience encompasses a variety of practice areas, including energy, construction, complex commercial disputes, real property disputes and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. Additionally, Mr. Garwood represents both individuals and entities with transactional and general counsel services within the oil and gas industry. The transactional portion of his energy practice includes negotiating oil and gas leases, assisting with title curative documents and negotiating and drafting industry-specific agreements. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law. Jason Seay has joined the Tulsa office of GableGotwals as of counsel. He has experience advising clients on health care regulatory compliance, data privacy and security, artificial intelligence governance and broader regulatory matters. Prior to joining the firm, he held in-house legal and compliance leadership roles at companies including GeneDx. He also served as associate general counsel for a regional health system in Alaska and represented state agencies as an assistant attorney general for the state of Oklahoma. He has additional private practice experience in health care law, civil litigation and administrative law. Mr. Seay received his J.D. from the TU College of Law.
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